e.g. If you are searching for more than one word, (e.g. Water Conservation)USE QUOTATION MARKS -- > Searches for the phrase in that exact order rather than each word separately

OTHER search options:

Wildcards: ? * (at end or middle of word) ? (Single character) -- Use when not sure of the spelling of a word/author e.g. Eri? will search for Erik, Eric, etc. ?? = not sure of spelling for 2 letters; ??? = not sure of spelling for 3 letters

* (End asterisk) = Trucation; this expands a search term to include all forms of a root worde.g., patent* retrieves patent, patentable, patented, etc.

Water AND Conservation -- Searches for articles or pages which contain bothWater and Conservation in their textBottles NOTGlass -- Searches for types of bottles including plastic and aluminum but excludes results with glassWater OR Hydro -- Site may contain either the word Water, or the word Hydro

Use the Boolean Searches on any search engine (e.g. Google Scholar) and for Advanced Searches in most Databases

> BONUS: If searching for 2+ terms, your search words will be highlighted in article.

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